Principal Product Architect

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We work a hybrid model (3 days in the office and 2 days work from home); this position is located in our Minneapolis Metro headquarters.

​​​​​​Our Corporate Product Development Group is seeking interest for a Principal Product Architect.

Are you passionate about defining the technical roadmap and platform architecture for customer-facing solutions? Do you have experience designing cloud-native microservices platforms? Do you enjoy providing technical leadership to application and DevOps teams? We're looking for someone to serve as the lead architectural voice for our customer-facing platform--ensuring BIW has a scalable, modern software foundation that meets the evolving needs of our clients.

Responsibilities of this position will include:

• Evaluate long-term business needs and align them with the overall system architecture.
• Lead strategic architectural decision-making to support future capabilities.
• Collaborate with product owners to brainstorm, define, and design effective solutions.
• Provide technical leadership to architect and design products.
• Establish and uphold technical standards across the platform.
• Mentor development leads and architects across the organization (influence without direct management).
• Security -- Ensure applications and environments are secure to industry and BIW standards, and that we have strategies and processes to remain secure.
• Partner with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to align application and infrastructure strategies.
• Interact with and influence all members of product teams including product owner, engineering manager, front and back-end developers, QA, UX/designers, management.
• Artificial Intelligence -- Set the technical strategy for AI within the SAAS platform, as well as AI for team productivity.
• Play a key role in incident response and resolution of critical issues.
• Stay informed about emerging technologies--evaluate their potential, and lead integration where appropriate.

Ideal candidates will possess the following requirements:

• Proven experience architecting and designing cloud-native, microservices-based platforms.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable and maintainable technical designs.
• Hands-on experience with modern technology stacks, including:
  • JavaScript, Java
  • Kubernetes, Docker
  • Kafka, PostgreSQL
  • CDNs, CI/CD pipelines
• Deep understanding of agile methodologies and modern software development practices.
• Strong communication skills, capable of engaging both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to mentor and guide senior technical talent.
• Equally comfortable coding, doing code reviews, making technology design and platform decisions, explaining technical concepts and decisions, talking with Product Owners about product features, and/or talking with executive leaders about technology.
• Experience implementing AI product solutions and using AI for productivity.

Security & Platform Health Focus

In addition to the above, also ensure all applications and environments are:

• Secure -- aligned with industry and BIW security standards
• Performant -- delivering fast and consistent user experiences
• Observable -- with logging, tracing, and monitoring for proactive insights

Base Salary Range: $180,000.00 to $220,000.00. The final salary and offer will be determined by the applicant's background, experience, and skills.

More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.biworldwide.com/careers/benefits-page/